Fastener for pocket-books



(No Model.)

L. STRAUSS.

FASTENER PORPOUKET BOOKS, 650.

No. 247,223. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEOPOLD STRAUSS, 0F MIDDLETOWN, CONNEGTFCUT.

FASTENER FOR POCKET-BOOKS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,223, dated September 20, 1881.

Application filed April 9, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD STRAUSS, of the city of Middletown, county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented and made a new and useful Fastener for Pocket- Books, Diaries, and the like; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, which make a part of this my specification.

I take a plate of brass or other suitable metal of sufficient elasticity to form a spring, and I cut from it a piece of the shape represented in Figure 1. The projecting ends A and B are stamped so as to form a boss on the under side, giving each the form of a small spoon-howl. The ends of the plate are then folded so as to produce a form of which a vertical section passing through A and B is represented in Fig. 2. The hollow sides of Aand B, being thus made to face each other, form a hollow knob, resembling in outward appearanee a split acorn, and can be pressed together by reason of the elasticity of the metal.

This fastener, so constructed, is attached to the hotly of the pocketbook or diary at the usual place of fastening by means of tceth-like points out with the plate and bent down, as represented at n and n in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view, showing my fastener as applied for use. i

In the flap or strap of the pocket-book or diary, at the point where it meets this lastener, I insert a metallic ring or eyelet, which readily slips over the springbosses of the fastener and holds, by the reaction of the springing metal, the pocketbook firmly closed and fastened.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

A fastener havingthe spoon shaped endsA and B and the teeth a n for attaching it to the article, all stamped or struck up in one piece and bent into form, as shown and described.

LEOPOLD STRAUSS.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM PHILLIPS, LoUIs STRAUSS. 

